‘Net zero’ gives emitters wriggle-room – the UK needs a specific emissions reduction target.
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The public is largely open to moving away from fossil fuel use for residential heating and hot water.
Looming carbon budget deadlines pose a challenge for the UK’s flagship climate legislation.
If all countries in the world followed Indonesia’s target, the global temperature would rise by 4°C by 2050.
The government is now assured it will secure its legislation to enshrine its 43% 2030 emissions reduction target, after Greens leader Adam Bandt pledged his party would support it in both houses.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Director of the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, Dr Lain Dare discuss the week in politics.
At the end of the day, net-zero by 2050 is a risky and inadequate goal, especially for wealthy nations such as Australia.
The Victorian Government recently released their Climate Change Strategy and committed to halving greenhouse emissions by 2030. Don’t applaud this just yet, there’s much more to do.
It may seem a long way away, but meeting targets in 2035 demands taking action today.
We hear a lot about the Morrison government ‘kicking the can down the road’ on emissions reduction. New research reveals the precise burden that forces onto young Australians.
The bold pronouncements of 2019 must mean something through the 2020s and beyond.
Nation-wide climate legislation would not only help reduce our carbon emissions, but also boost economic growth.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor and Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor Emerita, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher in Economics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Chair of Energy and Climate Governance, University of Manchester
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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PhD Candidate, UNSW
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Climateworks Centre Country Lead, Australia, Monash University
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Climateworks Centre CEO, Monash University